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Random DN annoyance
Jun. 25th, 2008 10:35 am I'd never realized how annoying it is to work around the timing in DN before these past few days.
You see, in most series there is no sense of time. In FMA I could have Ed and Al try to ressurect their mother on Al's birthday, or the Ishvari rebellion start on New Year's, or something like that, because there is no timeline given. We don't know when anything happens so I can just make it up.
In DN I can't do that. Because in DN, events have DATES attached to them. I can't make Light's birthday or Christmas fall during the Yotsuba arc, because it doesn't and the canon dates say so. (Light and L meet in April, and the Youtsuba arc is over by the end of October) When you're trying to write a Holiday fic, this gets really, really annoying.
So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back and keep rereading the second arc to see when in the story Light's 25th birthday falls.
S
You see, in most series there is no sense of time. In FMA I could have Ed and Al try to ressurect their mother on Al's birthday, or the Ishvari rebellion start on New Year's, or something like that, because there is no timeline given. We don't know when anything happens so I can just make it up.
In DN I can't do that. Because in DN, events have DATES attached to them. I can't make Light's birthday or Christmas fall during the Yotsuba arc, because it doesn't and the canon dates say so. (Light and L meet in April, and the Youtsuba arc is over by the end of October) When you're trying to write a Holiday fic, this gets really, really annoying.
So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back and keep rereading the second arc to see when in the story Light's 25th birthday falls.
S
